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DETROIT, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Detroit Mayor Dave Bing on Tuesday suspended the city's police chief and ordered a full investigation after media reports that he had been dating a female internal affairs officer in the department. Police Chief Ralph Godbee Junior is the latest Detroit city leader to face accusations of a sexual relationship with a subordinate after former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his immediate predecessor as chief, Warren Evans. "After learning of the allegations regarding Chief Ralph Godbee, I have placed him on a 30-day suspension pending a full and thorough investigation of this matter," Bing said in a statement.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has warned the United States that their relations would suffer "serious damage" if Washington adopts a bill to penalize Russian officials for human rights abuses, a state news agency reported on Saturday. Itar-Tass said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at talks on Friday in St Petersburg that "the possible endorsement in the United States of the 'Magnitsky law' will bring serious damage to relations between our countries.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow will seek closer ties with the United States but will not tolerate interference in its affairs and wants guarantees a U.S. missile shield will not be used against Russia, under terms of a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin on Monday. Putin set out foreign policy priorities in a wide-ranging document signed hours after his inauguration to a six-year term as president, veering little from an article he wrote on the subject during the election campaign.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top diplomat told U.S. officials on Friday that human rights should not be used to "interfere in other countries' internal affairs" after two days of high-level talks overshadowed by contention over the dissident Chen Guangcheng. State Councilor Dai Bingguo, who steers Chinese diplomacy and outranks the foreign minister, said no country could claim to be perfect on human rights. "Human rights issues should not disturb state-to-state relations, and they should not be used as an excuse to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries," he said.

Frustrated, Tiawanda Moore quietly flipped on the recorder on her BlackBerry as she believed that two Chicago police internal affairs investigators were trying to talk her into dropping her sexual harassment complaint against a patrol officer. But Moore was the one who ended up in trouble -- criminally charged with violating an obscure state eavesdropping law that makes audio recording of police officers without their consent a felony offense. On Wednesday, though, a Criminal Court jury quickly repudiated the prosecution's case, taking less than an hour to acquit Moore on both eavesdropping counts.

Frustrated, Tiawanda Moore quietly flipped on the recorder on her BlackBerry as she believed that two Chicago police internal affairs investigators were trying to talk her into dropping her sexual harassment complaint against a patrol officer. But Moore was the one who ended up in trouble - criminally charged with violating an obscure state eavesdropping law that makes audio recording of police officers without their consent a felony offense. On Wednesday, though, a Criminal Court jury quickly repudiated the prosecution's case, taking less than an hour to acquit Moore on both eavesdropping counts.

Shortly after his appointment in May, Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said the department's command structure was too confusing and vowed to change it. On Monday, McCarthy simplified things at the top by creating six bureaus — each with its own chief, who will report directly to him and First Deputy Superintendent Al Wysinger. The move eliminates two assistant superintendent and four deputy superintendent positions, some of whom were shuffled to other posts. At a news conference at police headquarters, the longtime veteran of the New York City Police Department said the moves streamline operations and provided greater authority and accountability.

The U.S. Justice Department on Monday opened a civil rights probe into years of complaints about police practices in Newark, N.J., where Garry McCarthy is leaving as director to become Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel's first police superintendent. Federal investigators said they are looking into a pattern of misconduct allegations in the Newark Police Department, much of which predates McCarthy's arrival in 2006. The allegations under investigation include unconstitutional stops, searches and arrests, excessive force and mistreatment of people in the city's lockup facilities.